Fire-escape



(No ModeL) G. RYBR.

HRB ESCAPE.

No. 303,955i Patented Aug. 5, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Enron.

GEORGE REER, oF ROCKY rnLL, coNNEcrrcur.

FIRE-ESCAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,055, dated August5, 1884.

Application filed February 2G, 1883. (No model.)

. Fig. 2 is a view of the Vdevice used with the ladder.

The letters a e denote two ropes,preferably of fibrous material, madefire-proof, and by preference also Water-proof, and provided at the endswith hooks b,for taking hold of a window-sill or the like. Both ends mayhave such hooks, if desired.

The letters c denote the rungs of a ladder made of some material whichis stiii' in distinction from material that is pliable like a rope. `Inthe present case they are made of wood with holes near the ends, throughwhich y the ropes a pass,lwhich ropes are knotted on i both sides ofeach rung, so as to hold the rungs inv place. V

I deem it essential that the ropes of this ladder should beof iibrousmaterial, in order that they may be very flexible, so that thecontrivance may be carried in a portmanteau or stored under the bed; andin connection with such brous ropes it is essential that the run gs he`made of some stiff material-as Wood or the like-so that when a personsteps upon a rung the two ropes at the sides shall not be drawntogether. The hooks at the end are essential that the device may beattached to the inside of a WindoW-sill,or to any convenient object in abed-chamber. In Fig. 2 I showa device for use in connection with theladder, which is shown in Fig.

1, the fact being that most Women and children and many timid men andboys could hardly be got to descend a ladder Without some otherprotection. This device I am now about to describe aiiords suchprotection. It consists of a knotted rope, d, looped at the upper end,

-so that a person in the chamber may get a good grasp of it. The knotspermit the person who is descending` the ladder to get a goed graspofthe rope. At the lower end thereof there is a padded strap, e, forencircling the person about the Waist or under the arms, with loops atthe end, through which the lower end of the loop d is slip-noosed, sothat a pull on the rope gives the padded strap a firm embrace of theperson who is descending the ladder. This device I intend to be used incon junction with the ladder shown in Fig. 1,When a Weak or timid personis descending. The padded strap e is slipaioosed under the Waist'. Theperson descending may or may not take hold of the knots in the rope. Theupper end of the rope is held meanwhile by a person in the room above,who pays out the rope as the person on the ladder descends.

. I claim as my improvement- 1. The padded safetystrap c, combined witha slip-noosed and knotted rope, d, all substantially as described, andfor the purpose set forth.

2. rIhe combination of the ladder and the device composed of the paddedstrap c and slip-noosed and knotted rope d, all substantially asdescribed, and'for thc purpose set forth.

GEORGE- RYER.

lVitnesses:

W. E. Sii-ioni), C. L. BURDE-rr.

